Document Outline

• Contents
• Chapter 1: Getting started
  • Installation
    • Requirements
    • Install the software
    • Activate the software
    • Register
    • Read Me
  • Adobe Help
    • Adobe Help resources
    • Using Help in the product
  • Resources
    • Adobe Video Workshop
    • After Effects CS3 videos
    • Extras
    • Bridge Home
    • Adobe Design Center
    • Adobe Developer Center
    • Customer support
    • Downloads
    • Adobe Labs
    • User communities
  • What’s new
    • New features
• Chapter 2: User interface
  • Customizing the user interface
    • About workspaces
    • Choose a workspace
    • Dock, group, or float panels
    • Resize panel groups
    • Open and close panels and windows
    • Working with multiple monitors
    • Save a custom workspace
    • Reset a workspace
    • Delete a workspace
    • Brighten or darken the interface
  • Using the After Effects interface
    • Work with columns
    • Scroll or zoom with the mouse wheel
    • Open panel, viewer, and context menus
    • Work with viewers
    • Activate a tool
    • Tips for working with the After Effects user interface
    • Work with preferences
• Chapter 3: Planning and managing projects
  • Project basics
    • About project files
    • Create and open projects
    • Work with template projects
    • Save and back up projects
    • Work with the Flowchart panel
    • Undo changes
  • Project planning and setup
    • Workflow
      • Example workflow: Create a simple movie
    • Use Adobe Bridge with After Effects
    • Planning your project
    • Planning for playback from film, videotape, and DVD
    • Planning for playback on computer monitors and mobile devices
    • Working with Photoshop and After Effects
    • Working with Flash and After Effects
    • Working with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
    • Work with Adobe Encore and After Effects
    • Creating an animated GIF movie
    • Cross-platform project considerations
  • Memory, storage, and performance
    • Memory usage and storage
    • RAM and disk caches
    • Memory & Cache preferences
    • Render multiple frames simultaneously
    • Improve performance
  • Plug-ins and scripts
    • About plug-ins
    • Work with scripts
• Chapter 4: Importing
  • Importing and interpreting footage items
    • Working with imported files
    • Supported import formats
    • Import footage items
    • Interpret footage items
    • Specify alpha channel interpretation
    • Change frame rate
    • Change pixel aspect ratio
    • Common pixel aspect ratios
    • Use square-pixel footage for output to D1/DV NTSC
  • Working with footage items
    • Organize and view items in the Project panel
    • Working with footage items in the Footage panel
    • Reveal footage items
    • Refresh footage items
    • Edit footage in its original application
    • Remove items from a project
    • Work with placeholders and proxies
    • Loop a footage item
  • Importing from After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro
    • Import an After Effects project
    • Import an Adobe Premiere Pro project
    • Use Adobe Premiere Pro for capture (Production Premium only)
    • Copy between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Importing video and audio
    • Work with the media cache
    • Types of video and film
    • About high-definition (HD) video
    • About interlaced and noninterlaced video
    • Separate video fields
    • Determine the original field order
    • Remove 3:2 or 24Pa pulldown from video
    • Import assets in Panasonic P2 format
    • Importing AAF and OMF files (Windows only)
    • Importing DDR-based footage
    • Edit audio in Adobe Soundbooth or Adobe Audition
  • Importing 3D image files
    • 3D files from other applications
    • Importing 3D images from Photoshop Extended and Illustrator
    • Import RLA or RPF data into a camera layer
    • Baking and importing Maya data
  • Importing still images
    • Preparing still-image files for importing
    • Import a single still image or a still-image sequence
    • Convert a merged footage item into a composition
    • Preparing and importing Photoshop files
    • Preparing and importing Illustrator files
    • Importing Cineon sequences
  • Introduction to Camera Raw
    • About camera raw files
    • About Camera Raw
    • About the Digital Negative (DNG) format
    • Processing images with Camera Raw
    • Import and interpret camera raw files
    • Camera Raw dialog box overview
    • Work with the Camera Raw cache in Adobe Bridge
  • Navigating, opening, and saving images with Camera Raw
    • Process, compare, and rate multiple images in Camera Raw
    • Open images in Camera Raw
    • Save a camera raw image in another format
  • Adjusting color in Camera Raw
    • Using histogram and RGB levels in Camera Raw
    • Preview highlight and shadow clipping in Camera Raw
    • White balance controls in Camera Raw
    • Adjust tone in Camera Raw
    • Fine-tune tone curves in Camera Raw
    • Clarity, Saturation, and Vibrance controls in Camera Raw
    • HSL / Grayscale controls in Camera Raw
    • Tone a grayscale image in Camera Raw
    • Adjust color rendering for your camera in Camera Raw
    • Compensate for chromatic aberration in Camera Raw
    • Compensate for lens vignetting in Camera Raw
  • Modifying images with Camera Raw
    • Rotate images with Camera Raw
    • Straighten images in Camera Raw
    • Crop selected images in Camera Raw
    • Remove red-eye in Camera Raw
    • Retouch images in Camera Raw
    • Adjust sharpening in Camera Raw
    • Reducing noise in Camera Raw
  • Camera Raw settings
    • Save, reset, and load Camera Raw settings
    • Specify where Camera Raw settings are stored
    • Copy and paste Camera Raw settings
    • Apply saved Camera Raw settings
    • Export Camera Raw settings and DNG previews
• Chapter 5: Compositions
  • Composition basics
    • Introduction to compositions
    • Create a composition
    • Timeline panel overview
    • Work with composition settings
    • Work with the region of interest
    • Set composition background color
    • Work with composition thumbnail images
    • Zoom in or out in time
    • Set the work area
  • Nesting, precomposing, and pre-rendering
    • About nesting and precomposing
    • Precompose layers
    • Pre-render a nested composition
    • Render order and collapsing transformations
  • Markers
    • About markers
    • Work with composition-time markers
    • Work with layer-time markers
    • Create a web link, chapter link, or cue point from a marker
    • Synchronize markers to audio
• Chapter 6: Views and previews
  • Previewing
    • Preview video and audio
    • Move the current-time indicator
    • Choose a viewer to always preview
    • Preview modes
    • Work with snapshots
    • Preview on an external video monitor
  • Modifying and using views
    • Select a view layout and share view settings
    • Select a 3D view
    • Show or hide layer controls in the Composition panel
    • Zoom
    • Resolution
    • Viewing a color channel or alpha channel
    • Adjust exposure for previews
    • Work with safe zones, grids, guides, and rulers
    • Change time display units
• Chapter 7: Layers and properties
  • Creating layers
    • About layers
    • Work with the Layer panel
    • Create layers from footage items
    • Create or modify a solid-color layer
    • Create an adjustment layer
    • Create a layer and new Photoshop footage item
  • Selecting and arranging layers
    • Select layers
    • Change the stacking order for selected layers
    • About coordinate systems
    • Move layers in space
    • Align or distribute layers in 2D space
    • Trim, extend, or slip-edit a layer
    • Remove part of a layer’s duration
    • Place a layer in time
    • Arrange layers in time sequentially
    • Copy or duplicate a layer
    • Split a layer
    • Auto-Orientation options
  • Managing layers
    • View and change layer information
    • Layer switches and columns in the Timeline panel
    • Exclude a layer from previews and final output
    • Solo a layer
    • Lock or unlock a layer
    • Work with color labels
    • Show and hide layers in the Timeline panel
    • Layer image quality
    • Continuously rasterize a layer containing vector graphics
  • Modify layer properties
    • Work with layer properties in the Timeline panel
    • Set a property value
    • Work with layer anchor points
    • Scale a layer
    • Flip a layer
    • Rotate a 2D layer
    • Adjust audio volume levels
    • Work with parent and child layers
    • Create a null object
    • Work with guide layers
    • Use Brainstorm to experiment and explore settings
  • Blending modes
    • Change a layer’s blending mode
    • Blending mode reference
  • Layer styles
    • About layer styles
    • Work with layer styles
    • Layer style settings
    • Working with blending options for layer styles
    • Exclude channels from blending
  • Working with 3D layers
    • About 3D layers
    • Convert 3D layers
    • Show or hide 3D axes and layer controls
    • Move a 3D layer
    • Rotate or orient a 3D layer
    • Axis modes
    • How render order and collapsed transformations affect 3D layers
  • Cameras, lights, and points of interest
    • Create a camera layer and change camera settings
    • Create a light and change settings
    • Move a camera, light, or point of interest
    • Adjust a camera view
    • Material Options properties
    • Specify resolution to use for rendering shadows
• Chapter 8: Animation
  • Animation basics
    • About animation, keyframes, and expressions
    • Work with the Graph Editor
  • Setting, selecting, and deleting keyframes
    • Set keyframes
    • Add a keyframe without changing a value
    • Move the current-time indicator to a keyframe
    • Select keyframes
    • Keyframe menu commands
    • Delete or disable keyframes
  • Editing, moving, and copying keyframes
    • Edit a keyframe in the Graph Editor
    • View or edit a keyframe value
    • Copy and paste keyframes
    • Edit keyframe values using a spreadsheet
    • Move keyframes in to another time
    • Move a keyframe to a specific time
    • Expand or contract a group of keyframes in layer bar mode
    • Move a layer duration bar but not its keyframes
    • Copy a value from a layer property that contains no keyframes
    • Change multiple keyframe values at once
    • Edit multiple keyframes in the Graph Editor
  • Creating and modifying motion paths
    • Work with motion paths
    • Sketch a motion path with Motion Sketch
    • Create a motion path from a mask, shape, or paint path
  • Assorted animation tools
    • Use motion blur
    • Smooth motion and velocity
    • Add randomness to a property with The Wiggler
    • Convert audio to keyframes
  • Interpolation
    • Controlling change with interpolation
    • Keyframe interpolation methods
    • Apply and change keyframe interpolation methods
    • Modify Bezier direction handles
  • Speed
    • About speed graphs
    • About changes in speed
    • Control speed between keyframes
    • Work with the speed graph
    • Change speed numerically
    • Smooth motion with roving keyframes
    • Revert to a nonroving keyframe
    • Automatically ease speed
    • Use Exponential Scale
  • Time-stretching and time-remapping
    • Time-stretch a layer
    • Reverse a layer’s playback direction
    • Reverse keyframes without reversing layer playback
    • About time-remapping
    • Time-remap a layer
    • Time-remap audio pitch
    • Apply frame blending to a layer
  • Animating with Puppet tools
    • About the Puppet tools
    • Manually animate an image with the Puppet tools
    • Record animation by sketching motion with the Puppet Pin tool
    • How the Puppet effect creates outlines
    • Work with pins and the distortion mesh
    • Puppet Overlap controls
    • Puppet Starch controls
• Chapter 9: Color
  • Color basics
    • Set the color depth
    • High dynamic range color
    • Select a color or edit a gradient
    • About color correction and adjustment
    • About color spaces
    • About gamma and tone response
  • Color management
    • Why you should use color management
    • Color management and color profiles
    • Calibrate and profile your monitor
    • Choose a working color space and enable color management
    • Linearize working space and enable linear blending
    • Interpret a footage item by assigning an input color profile
    • Assign an output color profile
    • Enable or disable display color management
    • Simulate how colors will appear on a different output device
    • Broadcast-safe colors
    • Working with Cineon footage items
• Chapter 10: Masks, transparency, and keying
  • Transparency overview
    • About transparency
    • About alpha channels and mattes
    • About straight and premultiplied channels
    • About keying
    • About masks
  • Creating and importing masks
    • Creating masks
    • Create a rectangular or elliptical mask numerically
    • Create a mask from a motion path
    • Create a mask from a channel with Auto-trace
  • Working with masks and mattes
    • View mask paths
    • Select masks, segments, and vertices
    • Change a mask path numerically
    • Lock or unlock masks
    • Copy, cut, save, reuse, and delete masks
    • Control mask path color
    • Mask modes
    • Adjust the edges of a mask
    • Adjust mask feather
    • About track mattes and traveling mattes
    • Convert a layer into a track matte
    • Preserve underlying transparency during compositing
  • Animating masks
    • Use Smart Mask Interpolation
    • Move a mask or pan a layer behind a mask
    • Apply motion blur to a mask
  • Keying
    • Keying overview and tips
    • Use a garbage matte
    • Use a hold-out matte
    • Close a hole in a matte
• Chapter 11: Text
  • Creating and editing text layers
    • About text layers
    • Best practices for creating text and vector graphics for video
    • Enter point text
    • Enter paragraph text
    • Resize a text bounding box
    • Convert point or paragraph text
    • Change the direction of text
    • Convert text from Photoshop to editable text
    • Select text
    • Edit and move text in text layers
  • Formatting characters
    • Using the Character panel
    • Work with fonts
    • Use smart quotes
    • Specify leading to control spacing between lines
    • Work with text fills and strokes
    • Specify kerning and tracking
    • Adjust scale or specify baseline shift
    • Change the case of text
    • Format as superscript or subscript
    • Blend overlapping characters in a text layer
    • Work with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text
  • Formatting paragraphs
    • Work with the Paragraph panel
    • Align and justify text
    • Indent and space paragraphs
    • Specify hanging punctuation for Roman fonts
    • Text composition methods
  • Animating text
    • About text animation
    • Text animation presets
    • Animate text with text animators
    • Work with animator properties
    • Work with selectors
    • Set a text layer’s anchor point properties
    • Work with per-character 3D text properties
    • Creating and animating text on a path
  • Examples of text animation
    • Example: Animate characters with per-character 3D properties
    • Example: Offset characters
    • Example: Animate characters with the Wiggly selector
    • Example: Animate text tracking
    • Example: Use selectors to animate specific words
    • Example: Create a write-on animation
    • Example: Animate text with multiple selectors
    • Example: Animate text position with expressions
    • Example: Animate text as a timecode display
• Chapter 12: Drawing and painting
  • Using paint tools
    • Work with paint tools and paint strokes
    • Common paint tool settings in the Paint panel
    • Work with brushes
    • Paint with the Brush tool
    • Use the Clone Stamp tool
    • Work with clone presets
    • Use the Eraser tool
    • Animate paint strokes
  • Shape layers overview
    • About vector graphics and raster images
    • About paths
    • About shapes and shape layers
    • About groups and render order for shapes
    • Group and ungroup shapes and shape attributes
  • Creating shapes and masks
    • Creating shapes and shape layers
    • Create a shape or mask by dragging with shape tools
    • Create a shape or mask the size of the layer
    • Create shapes from text characters
    • Create a Bezier shape or mask using the Pen tool
    • Convert a path between manual Bezier and RotoBezier
    • Modify a Bezier mask path or shape path
    • Copy a path from Illustrator, Photoshop, or Fireworks
    • Designate the first vertex for a Bezier path
  • Managing and editing shapes
    • Select paths, shapes, and groups
    • Move vertices in free-transform mode
    • Duplicate a shape group while transforming
    • Adding attributes to shape layers
    • Work with strokes and fills for shapes
    • Fill rules for shapes
    • Alter shape paths with path operations
    • Merge Paths options
    • Using the Repeater to replicate shapes
• Chapter 13: Motion tracking
  • Motion tracking overview
    • About motion tracking
    • Motion tracking workflow
    • Motion tracking controls
    • Motion tracking options
    • Motion tracking properties in the Timeline panel
  • Tracking motion
    • Track or stabilize motion
    • Adjust the track point
    • Apply tracking data to a new target
    • Correct a motion track
• Chapter 14: Effects and animation presets
  • Effects and animation presets overview
    • About animation presets
    • About effects
    • About compound effects and control layers
    • Effects with a Comp Camera attribute
  • Working with effects and animation presets
    • Work with effects in the Effect Controls panel
    • Effects & Presets panel overview
    • Apply an effect or animation preset
    • Delete or disable effects and animation presets
    • Remove an effect or animation preset
    • Save an animation preset
    • Work with effect control points
    • About randomness and random seeds
• Chapter 15: Effect reference
  • Galleries of effects
    • 3D Channel effects gallery
    • Blur & Sharpen effects gallery
    • Channel effects gallery
    • Color Correction effects gallery
    • Distort effects gallery
    • Generate effects gallery
    • Keying effects gallery
    • Matte effects gallery
    • Noise & Grain effects gallery
    • Paint effects gallery
    • Perspective effects gallery
    • Simulation effects gallery
    • Stylize effects gallery
    • Text effects gallery
    • Time effects gallery
    • Transition effects gallery
    • Utility effects gallery
  • 3D Channel effects
    • About 3D Channel effects
    • 3D Channel Extract effect
    • Depth Matte effect
    • Depth Of Field effect
    • Fog 3D effect
    • ID Matte effect
  • Audio effects
    • Backwards effect
    • Bass & Treble effect
    • Delay effect
    • Flange & Chorus effect
    • High-Low Pass effect
    • Modulator effect
    • Parametric EQ effect
    • Reverb effect
    • Stereo Mixer effect
    • Tone effect
  • Blur & Sharpen effects
    • About Blur & Sharpen effects
    • Box Blur effect
    • Channel Blur effect
    • Compound Blur effect
    • Directional Blur effect
    • Fast Blur effect
    • Gaussian Blur effect
    • Lens Blur effect
    • Radial Blur effect
    • Reduce Interlace Flicker effect
    • Sharpen effect
    • Smart Blur effect
    • Unsharp Mask effect
  • Channel effects
    • Alpha Levels effect
    • Arithmetic effect
    • Blend effect
    • Calculations effect
    • Channel Combiner effect
    • Compound Arithmetic effect
    • Invert effect
    • Minimax effect
    • Remove Color Matting effect
    • Set Channels effect
    • Set Matte effect
    • Shift Channels effect
    • Solid Composite effect
  • Color Correction effects
    • Using histograms to adjust color
    • Auto Color and Auto Contrast effects
    • Auto Levels effect
    • Brightness & Contrast effect
    • Broadcast Colors effect
    • Change Color effect
    • Change To Color effect
    • Channel Mixer effect
    • Color Balance effect
    • Color Balance (HLS) effect
    • Color Link effect
    • Color Stabilizer effect
    • Colorama effect
    • Curves effect
    • Equalize effect
    • Exposure effect
    • Gamma/Pedestal/Gain effect
    • Hue/Saturation effect
    • Leave Color effect
    • Levels effect
    • Levels (Individual Controls) effect
    • Photo Filter effect
    • PS Arbitrary Map effect
    • Shadow/Highlight effect
    • Tint effect
    • Tritone effect
  • Distort effects
    • Bezier Warp effect
    • Bulge effect
    • Corner Pin effect
    • Displacement Map effect
    • Liquify effect
    • Magnify effect
    • Mesh Warp effect
    • Mirror effect
    • Offset effect
    • Optics Compensation effect
    • Polar Coordinates effect
    • Puppet effect
    • Reshape effect
    • Ripple effect
    • Smear effect
    • Spherize effect
    • Transform effect
    • Turbulent Displace effect
    • Twirl effect
    • Warp effect
    • Wave Warp effect
  • Generate effects
    • 4-Color Gradient effect
    • Advanced Lightning effect
    • Audio Spectrum effect
    • Audio Waveform effect
    • Beam effect
    • Cell Pattern effect
    • Checkerboard effect
    • Circle effect
    • Ellipse effect
    • Eyedropper Fill effect
    • Fill effect
    • Fractal effect
    • Grid effect
    • Lens Flare effect
    • Lightning effect
    • Paint Bucket effect
    • Radio Waves effect
    • Ramp effect
    • Scribble effect
    • Stroke effect
    • Vegas effect
    • Write-on effect
  • Keying effects
    • Color Difference Key effect
    • Color Key effect
    • Color Range effect
    • Difference Matte effect
    • Extract effect
    • Inner/Outer Key effect
    • Linear Color Key effect
    • Luma Key effect
    • Spill Suppressor effect
  • Matte effects
    • Matte Choker effect
    • Simple Choker effect
  • Noise & Grain effects
    • Work with Grain effects
    • Work with noise samples in Grain effects
    • Working with added or matched grain
    • Add Grain effect
    • Dust & Scratches effect
    • Fractal Noise effect
    • Match Grain effect
    • Median effect
    • Noise effect
    • Noise Alpha effect
    • Noise HLS effect and Noise HLS Auto effect
    • Remove Grain effect
  • Paint effects
    • Paint effect
    • Vector Paint effect
  • Perspective effects
    • 3D Glasses effect
    • Basic 3D effect
    • Bevel Alpha effect
    • Bevel Edges effect
    • Drop Shadow effect
    • Radial Shadow effect
  • Simulation effects
    • Common Lighting controls and Material controls
    • Card Dance effect
    • Caustics effect
    • Foam effect
    • Particle Playground effect
    • Shatter effect
    • Wave World effect
  • Stylize effects
    • Brush Strokes effect
    • Color Emboss effect
    • Emboss effect
    • Find Edges effect
    • Glow effect
    • Mosaic effect
    • Motion Tile effect
    • Posterize effect
    • Roughen Edges effect
    • Scatter effect
    • Strobe Light effect
    • Texturize effect
    • Threshold effect
  • Text effects
    • Basic Text effect
    • Numbers effect
    • Path Text effect
    • Timecode effect
  • Time effects
    • Echo effect
    • Posterize Time effect
    • Time Difference effect
    • Time Displacement effect
    • Timewarp effect
  • Transition effects
    • About Transition effects
    • Block Dissolve effect
    • Card Wipe effect
    • Gradient Wipe effect
    • Iris Wipe effect
    • Linear Wipe effect
    • Radial Wipe effect
    • Venetian Blinds effect
  • Utility effects
    • Cineon Converter effect
    • Color Profile Converter effect
    • Grow Bounds effect
    • HDR Compander effect
    • HDR Highlight Compression effect
• Chapter 16: Expressions
  • Working with expressions
    • About expressions
    • Add, edit, and remove expressions
    • Example: Use the expression language reference to write an expression
    • Show expressions and the expression graph
    • Writing expressions for source text
    • Add comments to an expression
    • Save and reuse expressions
    • Using Expression Controls effects
    • Convert an expression to keyframes
  • The expression language
    • About the expression language
    • Accessing attributes and methods
    • Arrays and multidimensional properties
    • Vectors
    • Indices and labels
    • Expression time
  • After Effects expression elements reference
    • Using the expression elements reference
    • Global objects
    • Time conversion methods
    • Vector Math methods
    • Random Numbers methods
    • Interpolation methods
    • Color Conversion methods
    • Other Math methods
    • Comp attributes and methods
    • Footage attributes and methods
    • Layer Sub-objects attributes and methods
    • Layer General attributes and methods
    • Layer Properties attributes and methods
    • Layer 3D attributes and methods
    • Layer Space Transforms methods
    • Camera attributes and methods
    • Light attributes and methods
    • Effect attributes and methods
    • Mask attributes and methods
    • Property attributes and methods
    • Key attributes and methods
    • MarkerKey attributes
  • Expression examples
    • Example: Make a layer revolve in a circle
    • Example: Rotate the hands of a clock
    • Example: Position one layer between two others
    • Example: Create a trail of images
    • Example: Create a bulge between two layers
    • Example: Fade a 3D layer’s opacity based on distance from camera
    • Example: Make a 3D layer invisible if facing away from camera
    • Example: Flip layer horizontally if facing away from camera
    • Example: Animate scale at each layer-time marker
    • Example: Start or stop wiggle at specific time
    • Example: Match camera’s focal plane to another layer
• Chapter 17: Rendering and exporting
  • Basics of rendering and exporting
    • About rendering and exporting
    • Supported output formats
    • Render and export a movie using the render queue
    • Work in the Render Queue panel
    • Rendering and exporting movies using QuickTime components
    • Render with OpenGL
    • Collect files in one location
    • Specify file names and locations for rendered output
    • Work with render settings
    • Work with output module settings
    • Use a post-render action
  • Rendering and exporting to Flash formats
    • About render and export of Flash formats
    • Render and export a composition as a Flash (SWF) file
  • Rendering and exporting still images and still-image sequences
    • Creating motion-picture film
    • Rendering and exporting a sequence of still images
    • Export a single frame of a composition
    • About Filmstrip format
  • Exporting project information to other Adobe applications
    • Export an After Effects project to Adobe Premiere Pro
    • About Dynamic Link (Production Premium only)
    • Saving and Dynamic Link (Production Premium only)
    • Managing performance and Dynamic Link (Production Premium only)
    • Color and Dynamic Link (Production Premium only)
    • Link to a new composition with Dynamic Link (Production Premium only)
    • Link to an existing composition with Dynamic Link (Production Premium only)
    • Delete a dynamically linked composition or clip (Production Premium only)
    • Edit a dynamically linked composition in After Effects (Production Premium only)
    • Offline compositions and Dynamic Link (Production Premium only)
  • Encoding and compression options for movies
    • Format options and export settings
    • About the Adobe Media Encoder
    • About MPEG
    • Filter options for encoding
    • Video options for encoding
    • Audio options for encoding
    • Alternates and Audiences options for encoding
    • Others options for encoding
    • Media Encoder MPEG multiplexer preset options
    • Add XMP metadata to an exported file
    • Preview a movie on a virtual mobile device using After Effects
    • About compression of movie files
    • About data rate
    • Specify QuickTime compression settings
    • Specify Video for Windows compression options
    • Render a composition to OMF (Windows only)
  • Automated rendering and network rendering
    • Automating rendering with aerender
    • Network rendering with watch folders
    • Set up watch-folder rendering
    • Track dependencies of a watch-folder render
    • Start in watch-folder mode
    • Render a still-image sequence with multiple computers
    • Overflow volumes and segment settings
  • Converting movies
    • Convert footage items between video formats
    • Convert DV footage from PAL to NTSC using pulldown
    • Scaling a movie down
    • Scaling a movie up
    • Create a composition and render source footage items simultaneously
    • Introduce 3:2 pulldown
    • Test field-rendering order
  • Reviewing movies with Clip Notes comments
    • About Clip Notes comments
    • Rendering and exporting a movie for Clip Notes comments
    • Clip Notes export settings
    • Add Clip Notes comments
    • Import Clip Notes comments
• Chapter 18: Keyboard shortcuts
  • Using and modifying keyboard shortcuts
    • Shortcuts, general
    • Shortcuts for working with projects
    • Shortcuts for working with preferences
    • Shortcuts for panels, viewers, workspaces, and windows
    • Shortcuts for activating tools
    • Shortcuts for working with compositions and the work area
    • Shortcuts for working with previews
    • Shortcuts for time navigation
    • Shortcuts for working with footage
    • Shortcuts for using and modifying views
    • Shortcuts for effects and animation presets
    • Shortcuts for working with layers
    • Shortcuts for showing properties in the Timeline panel
    • Shortcuts for modifying properties
    • Shortcuts for 3D layers
    • Shortcuts for keyframes
    • Shortcuts for working with text
    • Shortcuts for working with masks
    • Shortcuts for working with paint tools
    • Shortcuts for working with shape layers
    • Shortcuts for working with markers
    • Shortcuts for motion tracking
    • Shortcuts for saving, exporting, and rendering
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